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A 1934 drawing of Cthulhu, the central cosmic entity in Lovecraft's seminal short story, "The Call of Cthulhu", first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. [ 1 ] Lovecraftian horror , also called cosmic horror [ 2 ] or eldritch horror , is a subgenre of horror , fantasy fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the ...
In a more general sense, dark fantasy is occasionally used as a synonym for supernatural horror, to distinguish horror stories that contain elements of the supernatural from those that do not. For example, a story about a werewolf or vampire could be described as dark fantasy, while a story about a serial killer would simply be horror. [7]
A short story on Gaiman's website featuring Cthulhu dictating an autobiography to a human slave. [11] The Illuminatus! Trilogy: Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea: 1975 Features several Mythos references. "Jerusalem's Lot" Stephen King 1978 A short story published in 1978 as a part of the collection Night Shift. It serves as a prequel to ...
Several attempts to define the neologism [3] grimdark have been made: . Adam Roberts described it as fiction "where nobody is honourable and Might is Right", and as "the standard way of referring to fantasies that turn their backs on the more uplifting, Pre-Raphaelite visions of idealized medievaliana, and instead stress how nasty, brutish, short and, er, dark life back then 'really' was".
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works is a 1991 collection of short stories in the horror genre by American author Thomas Ligotti. [1] [2] The book was Ligotti's second short story collection to be published, following Songs of a Dead Dreamer.
Eihort (God of the Labyrinth) first appeared "in person" in Ramsey Campbell's short story "Before the Storm" (1980). However, the being was first mentioned in Campbell's "The Franklyn Paragraphs" (1973) and "Cold Print" (1969) Eihort lives within a network of tunnels deep beneath the Severn Valley, in England. It appears as a "bloated blanched ...
GH+ Reads members reviewed 'Midnight is the Darkest Hour' by Ashley Winstead, and they loved the spooky story, complex characters and shocking ending.
The Temple (Lovecraft short story) The Terrible Old Man; The Thing on the Doorstep; Through the Gates of the Silver Key; Till A' the Seas; The Tomb (short story) The Transition of Juan Romero; The Tree on the Hill; The Tree (short story)